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WAILFUL

• WAILFUL (adjective)
The adjective WAILFUL has 1 sense:

1. vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression

Familiarity information: WAILFUL used as an adjective is very rare.

• WAILFUL (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression

Synonyms:

lamenting; wailful; wailing

Context examples:

lamenting sinners / wailing mourners / the wailing wind / wailful bagpipes / tangle her desires with wailful sonnets

Similar:

sorrowful (experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss)

"Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas."
(English proverb)
"You will not get a big job done from whom does not want a small one."
(Albanian proverb)
"Don't take any wooden nickels."
(American proverb)
"A fortune-teller would never be unhappy."
(Corsican proverb)

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